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* ''Anime/YuriOnIce'' has Victor. In this case, his hair is implied to be thinning out and he is in risk of getting bald, so his hair is a pretty sensitive topic. The fact that Yuri likes to poke his hair becomes a RunningGag. Eventually, though, Victor grows out of it and lets Yuri touch his hair a lot more, [[spoiler:the fact that they become an OfficialCouple definitely helped]].

* ''Videogame/PokemonSunAndMoon'': Dartrix are quite fussy about their hair (or the plumage that resembles it), and have been known to stop in the middle of battle to tend to it. Touch a Dartrix's hair in Pokemon Refresh and it will look ''ridiculously'' offended, [[http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/176/775/0e9.gif like so]].

->''"Listen man! You can threaten me all you like, but lets get one thing straight. Nobody, but '''nobody''' *bleep* with the [[AnimeHair hair]]!"''-->-- '''[[DesignatedHero Yami]]''', ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''

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->''"Listen man! You can threaten me all you like, but lets get one thing straight. Nobody, but '''nobody''' *bleep* with the [[AnimeHair hair]]!"''hair!"''-->-- '''[[DesignatedHero Yami]]''', '''Yami''', ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''

* Jessie in ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}''. It's only come up twice in the series, but that's more than enough to hammer the point home. The first time, an encounter with a swarm of Scyther cut most of it off. Her weeping soon turns into a SlasherSmile towards the Scyther, and were it not for Ash and friends showing up, Heaven knows what she would have done. The second time, we get an idea: a wild Seviper defeated Ash's Treecko. That same Seviper also outsmarted Team Rocket's attempts to catch it… up until [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2YWF74cCts the point where it bit off a large portion of Jessie's hair.]]-->'''Jessie''': AAAAAHHH, NOT MY HAIR! MY FLOWING HAIR IS MY TRADEMARK! Now I'm really mad! ''(DeathGlare)'' You've made a very big mistake, Seviper!

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* Jessie Musashi/Jessie in ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}''. It's only come up twice in the series, but that's more than enough to hammer the point home. The first time, an encounter with a swarm of Scyther cut most of it off. Her weeping soon turns into a SlasherSmile towards the Scyther, and were it not for Ash and friends showing up, Heaven knows what she would have done. The second time, we get an idea: a wild Seviper defeated Ash's Treecko. That same Seviper also outsmarted Team Rocket's attempts to catch it… up until [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2YWF74cCts the point where it bit off a large portion of Jessie's hair.]]-->'''Jessie''': -->'''Musashi/Jessie''': AAAAAHHH, NOT MY HAIR! MY FLOWING HAIR IS MY TRADEMARK! Now I'm really mad! ''(DeathGlare)'' You've made a very big mistake, Seviper!

-->'''James''': Poor Seviper!-->'''Meowth''': It knows not what it's done!-->''(Jessie delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Seviper before catching it in a Pokeball)''

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-->'''James''': -->'''Kojirou/James''': Poor Seviper!-->'''Meowth''': -->'''Nyarth/Meowth''': It knows not what it's done!-->''(Jessie delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Seviper before catching it in a Pokeball)''Pokéball)''

A specific type of BerserkButton, this character is extremely defensive about their hair and will quickly become angry if it is messed up or damaged in some way. Often used to indicate the character is at least somewhat vain as hair is often seen as similar to a peacock's tail - a display - and so it is a very easy symbol for vanity in general. Often played for comedy, expect these characters to have very outlandish styles.

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A specific type of BerserkButton, this character is extremely defensive about their hair and will quickly become angry if it is messed up or damaged in some way. Often used to indicate the character is at least somewhat vain as hair is often seen as similar to a peacock's tail - a display - and tail--a display--and so it is a very easy symbol for vanity in general. Often played for comedy, expect these characters to have very outlandish styles.

* Jessie in ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}''. It's only come up twice in the series, but that's more than enough to hammer the point home. The first time, an encounter with a swarm of Scyther cut most of it off. Her weeping soon turns into a SlasherSmile towards the Scyther, and were it not for Ash and friends showing up, Heaven knows what she would have done. The second time, we get an idea: a wild Seviper defeated Ash's Treecko. That same Seviper also outsmarted Team Rocket's attempts to catch it…up until [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2YWF74cCts the point where it bit off a large portion of Jessie's hair.]]

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* Jessie in ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}''. It's only come up twice in the series, but that's more than enough to hammer the point home. The first time, an encounter with a swarm of Scyther cut most of it off. Her weeping soon turns into a SlasherSmile towards the Scyther, and were it not for Ash and friends showing up, Heaven knows what she would have done. The second time, we get an idea: a wild Seviper defeated Ash's Treecko. That same Seviper also outsmarted Team Rocket's attempts to catch it…up it… up until [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2YWF74cCts the point where it bit off a large portion of Jessie's hair.]]

* Ryu / Ryo from ''Manga/ShamanKing'' takes a lot of pride in his hairstyle. Unfortunately for him, his hair getting sliced into increasingly weird shapes is a RunningGag, to the point where you can use his current hairstyle to follow the series' timeline. In the first episode, Yoh cuts the tip off his two-foot pompadour to scare him away from a gravesite he's vandalizing. During the first arc's StormingTheCastle finale, the whole thing gets cut down to the middle, leaving him with two half-pomps sticking out in a v shape. ''Both'' of these are then sliced off by ''Dracula''...only for Ryo to come full circle by [[RuleOfCool spontaneously regrowing his original pomp]] before kicking vampire ass.

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* Ryu / Ryo from ''Manga/ShamanKing'' takes a lot of pride in his hairstyle. Unfortunately for him, his hair getting sliced into increasingly weird shapes is a RunningGag, to the point where you can use his current hairstyle to follow the series' timeline. In the first episode, Yoh cuts the tip off his two-foot pompadour to scare him away from a gravesite he's vandalizing. During the first arc's StormingTheCastle finale, the whole thing gets cut down to the middle, leaving him with two half-pomps sticking out in a v shape. ''Both'' of these are then sliced off by ''Dracula''...''Dracula''… only for Ryo to come full circle by [[RuleOfCool spontaneously regrowing his original pomp]] before kicking vampire ass.

* Rapunzel in ''{{Disney/Tangled}}'' will let her hair be touched only by [[MyBelovedSmother her adoptive mother]], although this may be a case of having being told aforementioned mother that people would use her healing locks for their personal gain. She also does not want to talk about her hair much, to the point she neglects to mention its powers ("I have hair that glows when I sing") at a time when they may be needed...

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* Rapunzel in ''{{Disney/Tangled}}'' will let her hair be touched only by [[MyBelovedSmother her adoptive mother]], although this may be a case of having being told aforementioned mother that people would use her healing locks for their personal gain. She also does not want to talk about her hair much, to the point she neglects to mention its powers ("I have hair that glows when I sing") at a time when they may be needed...needed…

* In the episode "Life in the Past Lane" of ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'', Jane falls for Nathan, a guy with fantastic dress sense, who turns out to be an aficionado of 1950s and '60s fashion. When the two cut the rug at a speakeasy-themed club, she runs her fingers through his... pomade. He freaks out, and runs to the men's room to fix his do.

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* In the episode "Life in the Past Lane" of ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'', Jane falls for Nathan, a guy with fantastic dress sense, who turns out to be an aficionado of 1950s and '60s fashion. When the two cut the rug at a speakeasy-themed club, she runs her fingers through his... his… pomade. He freaks out, and runs to the men's room to fix his do.

* [[BlindingBangs Lee Kanker]] from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' seems to have shades of this attitude towards her hair- she shoves Eddy away from her in "Look into my Eds" when he tries to move her bangs out of her eyes, and if she gets wet/injured/disheveled in any kind of way, she frequently asks, "Does my hair look okay?"

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* [[BlindingBangs Lee Kanker]] from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' seems to have shades of this attitude towards her hair- she hair--she shoves Eddy away from her in "Look into my Eds" when he tries to move her bangs out of her eyes, and if she gets wet/injured/disheveled in any kind of way, she frequently asks, "Does my hair look okay?"

* ''Series/{{Cheers}}''. Sam is not only extremely protective of his hair, he's got hair care down to an exact science.

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* ''Series/{{Cheers}}''. Sam is not only extremely protective of his hair, he's got hair care down to an exact science. This is probably because it's eventually revealed that, as did Ted Danson himself, Sam wears a hairpiece.

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